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NEWSLETTER September 2020 – N°7 NEWSLETTER September 2020 – N°7 | EDITORIAL p. 2 | NEWS p. 3 | CASE STUDIES Advisory Commission: Hans von Marées, Uhlans on the March p. 8 Spoliation Advisory Panel: A gothic relief in ivory p. 10 | REPORTS Provenance Research Day p. 11 Provenance research at the University of Vienna p. 13 IDAC – Law Art Culture Institute, University of Lyon p. 15 UMA – Universal Museum of Art p. 16 | FIELD REPORT After the famous cases – Provenance research and the sociological shift p. 17 | ADDENDUM Provenance research in Slovenia: An interview with Barbara Murovec p. I September 2020 – N°7 EDITORIAL The editorial for the autumn issue of our Newsletter may be seen as a continuation of what was said in Newsletter 6/2020. Pandemics affect all of us, including the member countries of our network, not to the same extent everywhere, but still in an all-encompassing manner and, at least here in Austria, with renewed virulence at present. It therefore seems appropriate to pay tribute to a tool whose absence would have made the exchange of information and continued working even more difficult if not catastrophic had this situation – quarantine, lockdown, self-isolation – occurred, say, twenty-five years ago. I’m talking about the Internet, with all its imperfections. Today it enables us, not only in the isolation of a pandemic, to conduct provenance research more effectively and efficiently through the use of digital sources. Knowing and using the relevant websites and tools have long become basic skills, and the various commissions in our network are called upon to further develop this virtual digital network with the aim of establishing databases of information that can be used and accessed internationally. You can find here a small selection of sites mentioned just in this autumn 2020 issue of the Newsletter. With that in mind, let’s stay informed so that we can network even more effectively in future. Pia Schölnberger, Administrative director | Commission for Provenance Research 2 September 2020 – N°7 NEWS KOMMISSION FÜR of Bookbindings. Resources and methodologies emplo- yed for investigating questions pertaining to the Nazi era PROVENIENZFORSCHUNG will be discussed, and the challenges and limitations faced when examining printed material, and how these challen- ges are confronted on a daily basis, underlined. In sharing Commission for Provenance Research case studies of items in the library collection that were The Commission for Provenance Research website is identified as having been spoliated, the paper furthermore currently being restructured so as to improve the presenta- highlights the ethical, moral and legal considerations that tion of the tasks, work and results of provenance research arise in seeking just and fair solutions for the return of cul- and restitution in the state-owned collections involving tural property dispossessed as a result of Nazi persecution. not only the Commission for Provenance Research but also the work of the Art Restitution Advisory Board. There Markus Stumpf/Jutta Fuchshuber: “‘Suizid-Bücher’: Pro- is also information about possibilities for research. And, of venienzforschung und bibliothekarische Erinnerungsarbeit” course, the Network of European Restitution Committees (p 295–312, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25364/guv.2020.voebs on Nazi-Looted Art is represented as well: http://www.pro- 15.22). venienzforschung.gv.at/en/kommission/network-of-euro- Abstract: This contribution addresses the topic of suicide, pean-restitution-committees/ an issue only marginally discussed in the context of pro- venance research. The humiliation, discrimination, dis- For obvious reasons, the Art Restitution Advisory Board possession and persecution under the NS regime led to an has not been able to meet in the past few months, nor has increase in suicides among Jewish people. First, the source it been possible to report on events that have taken place material available in Austria is described through examples. or are planned in the near future. It is therefore all the The case study of Eleonora and Stefan Czember is discussed more pleasing to note that in spite of the difficult condi- to explore the question of how to deal with books that were tions a number of publications have appeared dealing with legally acquired but clearly belonged to Holocaust victims. aspects of provenance research and specific cases. Lisa Frank/Regina Zodl: “Das Exlibris Doris J. Klang als Beispiel eines bibliotheksübergreifenden Provenienzfalls” (p. Publications 313–25, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25364/guv.2020.voebs15.23). At the end of July 2020 a further thirty entries were pub- Abstract: In the course of provenance research at libraries lished in the Lexicon of Austrian Provenance Research. in Austria and Germany, a bookplate with the name Doris J. There are now 295 articles available for consultation: Klang has been documented several times, for example at https://www.lexikon-provenienzforschung.org the Vienna University of Economics and Business and at the Natural History Museum in Vienna. Until 1914 the insurance The proceedings of the 34th Austrian Library Conference expert James Klang was registered in Vienna. His library was (Graz, 2019), edited by Christina Köstner-Pemsel, Elisabeth taken over by his son, the renowned lawyer Heinrich Klang, Stadler and Markus Stumpf and published at Unipress Ver- as can be seen from the probate file. The latter had to sell lag Graz in 2020 (open access, DOI https://doi.org/10.25364/ the books in 1939 because of persecution. In addition to the guv.2020.voebs15), contain four peer-reviewed contribu- relevant bookplate, provenance aspects in the books also tions about provenance research in libraries: refer to the antiquarian bookshop Alfred Wolf as the buy- er, who was involved in the looting of books by the Nazis. Antonia Bartoli: “Findings from the bindings: An overview of Nazi-Era spoliation research at the British Library” (p. 277–94, Justus Düren: “Die Bibliothek des ‘Sonderauftrags Münzen’ – DOI: https://doi.org/10.25364/guv.2020.voebs15.21). Erste Ergebnisse” (p. 327–37, DOI: https://doi.org/10.25364/ Abstract: Since the signing of the Washington Conference guv.2020.voebs15.24). Principles in 1998, the British Library has taken its du- Abstract: In 1942, the numismatist Fritz Dworschak was ties seriously to identify collection items that might have commissioned to set up a coin cabinet in the art muse- been displaced between the years 1933 through 1945. um in Linz planned by Adolf Hitler, in which works of art The present paper provides a brief overview of Spoliation collected through seizure and purchase were to be exhi- Research projects at the library and a longer summary of its bited. This collection contained numismatic objects from most recent investigations into the Henry Davis Collection monasteries and orders as well as collections from Jewish 3 NEWS September 2020 – N°7 persecutees and purchases in Austria after 1938. For the CIVS & M2RS research work, approximately 4,500 volumes of numisma- tic literature were taken from the monastery libraries or obtained from the book trade. This article deals with this Looted art – new interdisciplinary perspectives library history and its restitution. for provenance research and restitution in the Franco-German context In the proceeds of the symposium „Logiken der Sam- mlung“, Stifterhaus Linz, April 2019, Monika Mayer pub- 30 September 2020, Institut français, Adenauerallee 35, lished an article on the former collection of Mathilde and 53113 Bonn Gottlieb Kraus: “Gestapo/Sonderauftrag Linz/Central Point München/Öster- French and German specialists in provenance research and reichische Galerie/Restitution: Zur Geschichte der Kunstsamm- restitution procedures met in November 2017 at the Kunst- lung von Mathilde und Gottlieb Kraus in Wien”, in Petra-Ma- halle in Bonn, Germany, for a conference entitled “Spolia- ria Dallinger, Klaus Kastberger, eds., Logiken der Sammlung: tion et trafic: Le marché de l’art français sous l’occupation Das Archiv zwischen Strategie und Eigendynamik, vol. 4 of the allemande (1940–1944)”. This two-day conference orga- series Literatur und Archiv (Berlin/Boston 2020), pp. 163–76. nized by the Deutsches Zentrum Kulturgutverluste (DZK) https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696479 was the first large-scale Franco-German event dealing with the systematic spoliation of art in France during the Oc- In January 2019, a con- cupation. The conference demonstrated that networking ference with interna- between France and Germany needed to be strengthened. tional experts entitled For that purpose, the Commission pour l’indemnisation “Vom Bodensee in die des victimes de spoliations (CIVS), the Käte Hamburger Welt? Der Kunsttrans- Kolleg “Recht als Kultur” and the Bureau de la Coopéra- fer in der Vierländer- tion Universitaire of the French Embassy co-organized a region und seine Rolle new workshop on 20 and 21 February 2019 in Bonn (“Art für die Provenienzfor- spolié: recherche de provenance et pratiques de restituti- schung” took place at on en Allemagne et en France”) with a view to exchanging the Zeppelin Muse- information and strengthening the network. More than um Friedrichshafen as 130 archivists, researchers, librarians, curators and institu- part of the exhibition tional representatives, mainly from France and Germany, “Eigentum verpflichtet: responded to the invitation. The work of the relevant in- Eine Kunstsammlung stitutions in each country was examined, as well as the fun- auf dem Prüfstand”. damental issues raised by the question of the restitution It was attended by of cultural property. The workshop also discussed methods Julia Eßl, provenance researcher at the Albertina in and the use of sources and presented some practical cases. Vienna. An article by her entitled “‘[…] wie sich das Schick- The search for “just and fair solutions” prescribed by the sal unserer Sammlung endgültig gestaltet’: Die Sammlung Washington Principles guided the debates. Heumann, Chemnitz” appeared in the publication Eigentum verpflichtet edited by Claudia Emmert, Ina Neddermeyer, The second workshop will take place online on 30 Sep- Mark Niehoff and the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen and tember 2020 and will follow on from the first event.
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